Cannot install updates

[plato]

Hi all

A mystery. After re-installing WinXP Pro SP2 IE7 then gets updates
from Microsoft - 84 in all!!


I get the icon in the systray which when clicked then fails to intall
the updates! A message comes up: "The following updates cannot be
installed". All 84 of them in fact! This is the first time this
happened to me - what's up?


After doing a search in Explorer I find that any update selected at
random appears to be installed in C:\Windows.


Can anyone help please as I cannot get rid of this pesky icon nor
intall the updates - if indeed they need installing.


Thanks


Plato

 

[Shenan Stanley]

A mystery. After re-installing WinXP Pro SP2 IE7 then gets updates
from Microsoft - 84 in all!!

I get the icon in the systray which when clicked then fails to
intall the updates! A message comes up: "The following updates
cannot be installed". All 84 of them in fact! This is the first
time this happened to me - what's up?

After doing a search in Explorer I find that any update selected at
random appears to be installed in C:\Windows.

Can anyone help please as I cannot get rid of this pesky icon nor
intall the updates - if indeed they need installing.

Search and Search before asking...

Updates are not installed successfully from Windows Update,
from Microsoft Update, or by using Automatic Updates after
you repair a Windows XP installation
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943144

Can't figure that out?

Get Dial-a-Fix:
http://wiki.djlizard.net/Dial-a-fix

Use its options to fix:
- Windows Installer
- Windows Update
- All the Registration Center options.

Turn off the "Empty System32\Catroot 2"
Do NOT do "Flush SoftwareDistribution".

Then click "GO" and wait until it is done... Reboot will be needed.

- Download/Install Windows Update v3.

http://download.windowsupdate.com/W...one/7.0.6000.381/WindowsUpdateAgent30-x86.exe
(You *may* need to install it using the command line switch "/wuforce"
right after the reboot - immediately after logging in.)

- Download/Install the 927891 patch.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=7A81B0CD-A0B9-497E-8A89-404327772E5A

- Reboot.

- Visit http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ and scan for/install updates.

- Come back and let us know how things went!

 

[Plato]

Search and Search before asking...

Updates are not installed successfully from Windows Update,
from Microsoft Update, or by using Automatic Updates after
you repair a Windows XP installationhttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/943144

Can't figure that out?

Get Dial-a-Fix:http://wiki.djlizard.net/Dial-a-fix

Use its options to fix:
- Windows Installer
- Windows Update
- All the Registration Center options.

Turn off the "Empty System32\Catroot 2"
Do NOT do "Flush SoftwareDistribution".

Then click "GO" and wait until it is done... Reboot will be needed.

- Download/Install Windows Update v3.

http://download.windowsupdate.com/WindowsUpdate/redist/standalone/7.0...
(You *may* need to install it using the command line switch "/wuforce"
right after the reboot - immediately after logging in.)

- Download/Install the 927891 patch.http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=7A81B0CD-A0B...

- Reboot.

- Visithttp://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/and scan for/install updates.

- Come back and let us know how things went!

Hi

Thanks for your reply. All done using method 1 in the MS link you
gave. The other method using Windows Update Agent didn't work as it
told me that it was already installed.

Thanks again and Happy Christmas

Plato

 

[Shenan Stanley]

Thanks for your reply. All done using method 1 in the MS link you
gave. The other method using Windows Update Agent didn't work as it
told me that it was already installed.

Thus the note about "may have to install using the command line option
/wuforce"... ;-)

 

[Ladylake]

Search and Search before asking...

Updates are not installed successfully from Windows Update,
from Microsoft Update, or by using Automatic Updates after
you repair a Windows XP installation
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943144

Can't figure that out?

Get Dial-a-Fix:
http://wiki.djlizard.net/Dial-a-fix

Use its options to fix:
- Windows Installer
- Windows Update
- All the Registration Center options.

Turn off the "Empty System32\Catroot 2"
Do NOT do "Flush SoftwareDistribution".

Then click "GO" and wait until it is done... Reboot will be needed.

- Download/Install Windows Update v3.

http://download.windowsupdate.com/W...one/7.0.6000.381/WindowsUpdateAgent30-x86.exe
(You *may* need to install it using the command line switch "/wuforce"
right after the reboot - immediately after logging in.)

- Download/Install the 927891 patch.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=7A81B0CD-A0B9-497E-8A89-404327772E5A

- Reboot.

- Visit http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ and scan for/install updates.

- Come back and let us know how things went!

I'm glad that I logged in today, because between my husband and myself, we
could not figure out why our updates were not installing. Method #1 of the
fix helped me also just like Plato.
Thank you very much.